Provincial registration in New Zealand.

Medical registration under provincial legislation applied only in parts of New Zealand between 1850 and 1867. A total of 199 practitioners who were registered under that legislation has been traced. Their subsequent fate is known in most cases. At least 120 died in New Zealand and 36 known deaths occurred overseas. Qualifications were predominantly English, with Scottish the next largest group, reflecting British practice at the time. Medical registration for the Colony of New Zealand began in 1868, in terms of the Medical Practitioners Act 1867 passed by the General Assembly of the colony. Before that, however, there was provincial legislation in the southern parts of the country. That provincial legislation is not generally highly regarded, but there are records of 199 people who were registered in terms of the provincial legislation and these records are known to be incomplete.